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Grant Shapps 'party of the workers' claim ridiculed by Labour
Ian Lavery lays into Tory chairman over bizarre attempt to rebrand the nasty party

Labour MP Ian Lavery injected a dose of reality yesterday following a top Tory’s attempt to rebrand his hard-faced right-wing party as the workers’ party.

Tory chairman Grant Shapps made a bizarre speech at his party’s HQ, declaring: “The Conservatives are the workers’ party.”

He claimed that the Tories were “genuinely a mass movement” with 174,000 members and 600,000 people following Prime Minister David Cameron on Twitter.

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